Cloud BI - getting real for the enterprise
Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) adoption is at an early stage but it is taking hold, says Birst CEO Brad Peters.
Analytics planning and data analysis
Understanding the Oracle, Salesforce.com and Workday equation
A slew of questions in the comment stream to my last piece prompt further review of the Workday-Salesforce.com alliance. Here I set out why the answers don't (mostly) matter to customers.
Weekend rant: big data is a bad joke, gimme context
As an antidote to the blether around Big Data, I muse on the importance of nuanced context. Without it, all the Big Data algorithms in the world will never solve our deep seated business problems. Nor will it relieve us of the tyranny of old benchmarks.
Googleised business intelligence
Business intelligence is anything but intelligent a lot of the time. This story examines the potential for using Google as the metaphor by which we infer what information is contextually relevant.
Struggle for context - RSS culture vs walled gardens
Just as companies are struggling with compiling the right data for real-time decision making, individuals have the same problem - magnified by dependence on smaller and smaller devices, where filtering content for impact is a daily chore. Here's my thoughts on where that leaves us.
'Tecs take up tech to track down fraud
Corporate fraud and compliance investigator Guidepost is using a cloud-based 'smart data' system to speed analysis of terabytes of data and achieve better results for less cost.
SAP Forum: where all roads lead to HANA
HANA, change, HANA, cloud, HANA. The SAP Forum in Birmingham reiterated the one plain truth: all roads lead to HANA.
What GMail knows about me and you
You can now visualize all your connections. these show us patterns of activity between people and those in groups that will be familiar to us. But what does this say about our privacy and what are the implications for business?
TIBCO wants you to take notice of big data
TIBCO has been hefting massive amounts of data for many years. In this conversation, Matt Quinn, CTO explains what the company means by 'big data' with examples of problems that it can solve. Enjoy.
Nine reasons why PRISM is a hoax
A weekend conspiracy theory take on the PRISM thing. In short - you can't make this stuff up...or can you?
Why Informatica World mattered
Salesforce.com and SAP may have stolen the headlines, but the best vendor-sparked conversations were actually coming out of Informatica World. Here's why.
Weissbeerger helps the beer flow
Anything that helps beer flow more quickly gets our vote. Enter Israeli based Weissbeerger. They're in the alochol analytics space, which, I must admit, is a new category to me.
Workday fires on all cylinders in Q1
Workday has released its Q1 fiscal 2014 results (see pro forma above.) Those results exceeded consensus expectations and the company is now raising its full years guidance. I like what I see in these results.
